Word: absurder
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...their debate, the whole game went public and hand to hand. Dole tried to parry the many punches with counterpunches and humor, or sometimes by ignoring them. He lost himself in numbers and bills and vetoes and at times was almost incomprehensible. He talked in the third-person absurd, and Buchanan was caught looking heavenward and rolling his eyes as Dole, head tilted to one side, a little ill at ease, struggled to get through his list...
...campaign itself have infected the rhetoric of the candidates to a remarkable extent. More so than in the past, candidates are talking about the mechanics of the campaign as part of the campaign, moving the entire electoral process closer and closer to a kind of theater of the absurd...
...TAXES FOR YOU; MORE MONEY FOR FORBES, with the sound of a cash register ringing in the background. Givens has his principles, but he also bears a grudge. Forbes magazine over the years has regularly denounced Givens' "idiotic promises" and called his tax-cutting tips "perfectly legal but perfectly absurd...
DIED. JOHN TESTRAKE, 68, pilot; of cancer; in St. Joseph, Missouri. Testrake was the captain of the TWA jet hijacked to Beirut in 1985. Footage of him amiably chatting with reporters from his cockpit while a gun-toting terrorist hovered about him captured the absurd horror of the 17-day ordeal...
...Quick, there's an answer, inform the question." That just doesn't seem right. Who decided that every concept, idea and notion was going to be either "somewhat intuitive" or "rather counter-intuitive?" As far as I can tell, these are just code words for "makes sense" and "completely absurd, but true anyway." But I may be mistaken...